Calvin Smith (Mississippi)

[2]: 53  He received a land grant in 1791, and was one of three Smith brothers to marry one of three Cobb sisters of Wilkinson County.

[2]: 102  He eventually owned a 22-room house on a plantation called Retirement in the Second Creek neighborhood, about 10 miles below Natchez, Mississippi.

Robinson wrote:[3] Shortly after, another boatload of negroes came down to New Orleans, among whom was a cousin of mine, and he was bought by Calvin Smith, and brought to the same plantation.

Then, at day-break, the ceremony commenced, and he received nine-and-thirty, then sent into the field, where he worked that day and the next, ran away...and on Friday was brought back by Joseph, the colored driver.

He called to Reed, another colored driver, to bring him a handful of cornshucks, a pitcher of water, and a bottle of brandy, of which he drank heartily, then commenced to set fire to the shucks, and burnt my cousin's bare flesh till it was a perfect crisp.

After Mississippi became a U.S. state, early settlers including Calvin Smith, his brother Philander Smith , and Stephen Duncan asserted the legitimacy of their land claims ("British Land Claims" Baton-Rouge Gazette , March 20, 1819)